Hello Paul, I'd say you are okay with just the LVD for general laboratory equipment. This issue of "intended use" is very similar to other laboratory equipment used to analyze blood and urine. However, I would make a statement that the centrifuges are intended for General Laboratory Use in your User documentation.
Best regards, Ron Wellman At 10:45 AM 10/15/2003 -0400, Smith, Paul J. wrote: >Tom, > >Our centrifuges are not used to process anything that is reintroduced back >into a patient. Accordingly couldn't these centrifuges be considered only >as general laboratory equipment covered by the LVD standards IEC 1010 / EN >601010 Safety Requirements for Electrical Equipment for Measurement >Control and Laboratory Use and 1010-2-020, Part 0-020 Particular >Requirements for Laboratory Centrifuges ? > >Regards, Paul S >-----Original Message----- >From: T.Sato [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:30 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: centrifuges and the MDD > > > >On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:06:26 -0400, > "Ned Devine" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If the centrifuge is used for blood, then it is covered under the MDD. > >Maybe the In-Vitro Directive, if the centrifuge is intended to >be used for in-vitro diagnostic applications. > >Regards, >Tom > >-------------------------------------------------- >Tomonori Sato <[email protected]> >URL: http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/ > >------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety >Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > >Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > >To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] >with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > >For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Ron Pickard: [email protected] > Dave Heald: [email protected] > >For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > >Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. >All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc > > >------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety >Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > >Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > >To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] >with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > >For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Ron Pickard: [email protected] > Dave Heald: [email protected] > >For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > >Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. >All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
